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UK study: It's safe to vape

Posted by
Ian Berger
on September 11, 2015

Straight from the horse's mouth:

“The
evidence consistently finds that e-cigarettes are another tool for stopping
smoking and in my view smokers should try vaping,” said Professor Ann McNeill, a tobacco addiction specialist at
London’s King’s College and one of the independent authors of a new report on e-cigarettes.

Commissioned
by Public Health England, the report, “E-cigarettes: an evidence update,” is an expert independent review of the latest
evidence for use by medical practitioners, policy makers, and the public. The authors specifically looked at what many stuck
on tobacco cigarettes want to know: Is it safe to vape and is it effective in
stopping the smoking habit?

“Many
people think the risks of e-cigarettes are the same as smoking tobacco and this
report clarifies the truth of this,” wrote Duncan Selbie, the agency’s chief
executive.

“In a nutshell, best estimates show
e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes,
and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit
tobacco altogether,” he said.

What really stands out is that the authors found
that most of the chemicals that cause smoking-related disease were absent from
e-cigs. They said the chemicals that
were present posed limited danger.

According
to the British report just about everyone: social smokers, not-so-heavy
smokers, heavy smokers, and even smokers who do not want to quit smoking. The British report shows that vaping e-cigarettes
helps those who want to quit smoking and can reduce the number of cigarettes of
smokers who have no intention of quitting.

Vaping
also benefits those who live with smokers because electronic cigarettes emit
vapor, not smoke. There is no
second-hand smoke. No odor.